Mystery makes me strong

Chapter 2442 The time traveler in prison

They entered the world and had a general overview of the world.

I found that they were all in ancient costumes, and there were no people flying into the sky to escape, so I subconsciously judged that this was the world of the feudal dynasty.

After arriving, I looked further into the distance and saw a flag with words written on it.

"Ming dynasty".

There is also a yellow dragon hovering on the flag.

"That's the Yellow Dragon Banner of the Ming Dynasty!" No. 1 said suddenly.

They actually came to the Ming Dynasty.

"This is the Ming Dynasty, what a pity." No. 3 shook his head.

"Tsk, there are many deceptive places in Ming Dynasty, and there are also many good places."

"In short, there are both wild places and upward places."

After everyone discovered this, they were quite depressed.

The 10 people looked around and found that this place was really just a feudal dynasty, which they found very boring.

What secrets can a feudal dynasty have to discover?

But when they looked carefully, they quickly discovered something different.

That is, there are many things here that are different from the feudal era.

They came to an ordinary county town.

Everyone lives and works in peace and contentment.

All of them had rosy faces and no patches on their clothes.

The food is good and the clothes are good.

Of course this is nothing.

Many small towns in the south of the Yangtze River can achieve this by relying on sea trade.

The difference is that there is actually a telegraph station here!

It is the most luxurious and sturdy building in the entire county.

Located in the center of the county, protected by the strongest castle!

The county government is located among them.

You must know that the Ming Dynasty generally did not build castles in inland counties.

But now here it is completely the opposite.

Each castle is 30 meters high.

There are hundreds of elite soldiers stationed on the castle.

They are real elite soldiers, the kind with iron armor.

In the center of the castle, there is a tall mast with wires wrapped around it.

Is that a radio station?

How can it be?

A feudal dynasty could actually have a radio?

Ten people were shocked.

Then think about it carefully.

It's actually not that special.

The real invention of the wireless telegraph was in 1895.

In 1895, both the East and the West were still dominated by feudal monarchs.

It was not until after 1918 that the monarch fell.

Their first guess was that history occasionally changed and the Ming Dynasty continued into the 19th century.

The second guess is that there are time travellers.

Then they went to investigate the age here.

When I asked the time carefully, I found that the Gregorian calendar was used here.

And it’s 1643.

Under normal circumstances, this is only one year away from the real time of the demise of Ming Dynasty orthodoxy!

However, for now, there is still a peaceful scene in front of us.

Of course, they also knew that the demise of the Ming Dynasty was a comprehensive collapse caused by local festering.

When orthodoxy in the capital fell, most places in the south were still peaceful, and people could still live their lives.

However, by observing the clothes and accents of the people in the county below, they discovered that this should be the north, or the land of Donglu.

No. 1 frowned and said: "Since there is a radio, it is 1643, and the scene is still the same, then there is a high probability that a time traveler is coming."

"This time traveler is very smart."

"We didn't rush to make major changes or make special changes to create a republic."

No. 2 smiled and said: "Since there is a radio, there must be something else."

Sure enough, they found another railway north of the town.

There was also a train rumbling along on the railway, pulling out streams of steam.

Railways and steam trains were the first means of transportation for mankind to completely conquer nature.

But something happened that shocked them.

After two days of investigation.

Apart from radio and railroads, little more has changed.

Other technologies have not developed so well.

Steamer, not seen.

Rifled muskets were not seen either.

The most important thing is that there are no professional primary schools, middle schools or high schools. On the contrary, people still read the Four Books and Five Classics, and learn the Three Guidelines and Five Constant Rules.

There is just a miscellaneous subject, the mechanical engineering subject, which is used to obtain scholarships.

"I understand!" No. 3 said suddenly.

He had been the son of a script once, and he understood it faster.

"What did you understand?"

"I understand that this place mainly uses specific technologies to consider the stability of the empire's rule."

"One is the train, and the other is the radio. The radio can ensure that the empire's news reaches the border."

"And the train can ensure that the empire's force is delivered to the border."

“This will enable the central government to suppress local governments.”

"With radios and trains, it can be said that it becomes extremely difficult for those local forces to rebel."

Everyone nodded.

They thought carefully.

Historically, since the emergence of trains, there have been very few cases of large forces with complete railway networks wanting to rebel internally and then win.

Most of them have strong external intervention, and internal economic conditions have deteriorated to the extreme, and even the soldiers' salaries cannot be maintained.

This kind of collapse often occurs under the impetus of external forces.

The most typical one is the collapse of the Hans royal family, which was the failure of the First World War, which led to the loss of popular support and prestige.

It was only when the soldiers on the front lines and the rear started to cause chaos at the same time that it was over.

It was not a direct rebellion by internal soldiers.

In places where people still walked on two legs before the establishment of trains, local separatism was even more common.

If you think about it carefully, you will understand the importance of trains.

Trains can quickly gather troops to achieve a situation of using more to defeat fewer.

When unrest is discovered, troops can be quickly moved there in advance.

There is no need to keep too many troops on the border.

After their observation, this is what Ming Dynasty is like now.

They built trains and wireless telegraph stations everywhere to transport soldiers to various places.

So the mystery should lie with the time traveler.

No. 1 said seriously: "Now it seems that the time traveler should have technology that this space does not have."

"We can take that technology from him."

After seeing this, other people nodded.

Only No. 3 wondered: "What technology? Steam engines, radios, why do you need such things? Just print out a bunch of information when you get home, okay?"

"Are you stupid? I'm talking about time travel technology!" No. 1 said helplessly.

If you rank IQ.

If No. 3 didn't have the bonus of the previous script son, he would definitely be at the bottom.

"Yeah, if we get the time-travel technology, it will be very beneficial to us. In the future, we won't have to dig tunnels randomly and go to a certain world randomly. Instead, we can go to various worlds."

"The safety factor can also be greatly improved." No. 9 followed.

Others nodded.

So they started looking for this time traveler.

As a result, after searching around, they found nothing.

At first they thought the other party was in the royal family.

Or at least it's documented in the royal family.

However, it was discovered that there was no record at all. Even in the local chronicles, there are no special figures.

It wasn't until No. 1 unlocked the special power that he discovered a very funny thing, or a very sad truth.

They thought that the time traveler should have become an emperor, or at least a powerful minister.

After all, in their opinion, time travelers have too many advantages in terms of perspective.

The so-called time travel without rebellion is like putting an electric drill in a chrysanthemum.

However, the truth now is that they found that the time traveler was actually in a prison.

And it is the deepest part of the dark prison.

This is a middle-aged man with a slovenly beard and rags.

Only at noon does the sun shine through the iron fence to bask in the sun.

He can only drink a little wine every day, and can only rely on chicken, duck and fish to numb himself.

Traveling through feudal society and not being an emperor, no matter what you do, you will end up with the same fate as being a dog.

Live with fear all the time.

But being an emperor is indeed very difficult.

Generally speaking, if there is no cheating, or the gold finger is too small, or the luck is not good enough, it will be difficult for even a time traveler to become emperor.

After all, even if ordinary people have advanced vision, personal charm, language communication, determination, health, and luck, these things are indispensable.

"I'll take the test. This guy is really frustrated."

No. 3 shook his head and said: "I have seen so many time-travel entrepreneurs, but having said that, he is not the most aggrieved."

"The more frustrated time-travelers cannot become human at the beginning, and even die after living for a day or two."

"Yes, the successful time-travelers we have seen are all survivor bias, and countless frustrated time-travelers have left no records at all."

Wen Rensheng nodded slightly when he heard this.

Is it a big deal if the time traveler is unlucky?

I don’t know when, one by one started to become more miserable.

As everyone knows, the time traveler who can leave a chapter behind is already lucky.

9% of travelers end up in one line.

For example, "Xiao Ming fell into the toilet when he went to the toilet and disappeared without a trace."

There is a high probability that it was shattered by the space-time channel, and not even a scrap was left.

Therefore, it is not bad for this time-traveling entrepreneur to be alive, enjoying food and wine in a prison.

It's just that compared to other time-travelers who left imperial biographies, it's just a bit frustrating.

The stories of most time-travelers are too short to form a world.

In Wen Rensheng's opinion, the story of this time traveler is so long that it can form a world.

From this point of view, it is not easy.

At this time, the 10 people had quickly agreed to find the time-travel technology from this time-traveler.

At least it is the opportunity and mystery of time travel.

Then No. 1 volunteered to accept this task.

He considers himself to be the wisdom and wisdom of everyone, and he must do his part.

So No. 1 came to the prison.

Of course he came in invisible.

He saw the time traveler talking to the guy whose real identity was the emperor, but whose apparent identity was a jailer.

As for why he knew, of course it was the information obtained during previous investigations.

They made a point of observing the emperor himself.

The emperor asked: "Sir, how should we solve the land issue?"

"The world is so big now that seven percent of the land is in the hands of landlords."

"We forcefully divide the land in one county, but within 20 years, most of it will still be in the hands of landlords."

The middle-aged time traveler shook his head and said: "Stupid, didn't I tell you last time?"

"Just launch a great voyage and move all the excess population out."

“As many as they are born, they migrate.”

"But it's easier to learn than to do. Many people have a hard time leaving their homeland. Forcibly separating other people's flesh and blood is a shame." The emperor sighed.

"It's ridiculous. It's hard to leave the homeland. That's because they haven't been hungry to a certain extent. When hungry to a certain extent, people will move away on their own. How did you come to escape from famine?"

"Isn't it just migrating on your own?"

"The key is that you have to provide a good migration channel." The middle-aged man said while drinking wine and looking at the world.

"But won't those people rebel if they go overseas?" the emperor worried.

The middle-aged man said disdainfully: "Hmph, it's a boring idea. The only real solution is to move overseas."

"In this case, we can also solve the problem of high land rent for the people who remain behind."

"There are fewer people renting land. If the landlord doesn't want to work in the fields himself, he must lower the land rent and interest, and he must treat the people better."

The emperor nodded silently.

But I still feel bad.

He thought of what a great man said: "If there are too many people, just kill them. The more you kill, the better."

"Rather than releasing them overseas and becoming a hidden danger, it is better to kill them right in front of your eyes, but find a way that does not harm your reputation. Let them starve to the point of rebellion first, and then kill them, so that your reputation will not be harmed."

Seeing the emperor's disapproval, the middle-aged man couldn't help but shook his head and said: "This is to use economic laws to solve this land annexation problem."

"Because land annexation itself is an economic law, it cannot be resisted by humans. It must be solved through economic development and expansion. If you forcefully suppress it by means, it will inevitably fail."

After hearing this, the emperor nodded.

"That's right, sir."

It's just that he said this verbally, but he actually disagreed in his heart.

The measures proposed by this gentleman are good, but they do not stand from the standpoint of his emperor.

Of course, the other party never knew that the person he was talking to was the emperor.

He thought about it.

It is possible to migrate the population.

But it must be moved to a place where you can control it.

For example, places connected by trains and telegraph stations.

And where trains can’t pass, you can’t move.

For example, the central Yazhou and the south-eastern regions.

There is already a long train going there.

There are more than 10,000 kilometers of railways.

The population is now migrating from the dry lands in the north to the south and east.

There's always migration.

The population of a county in the north is not comparable to the population of a town in the south.

In this case, land rent in the north is almost 10%, or even half.

Even if landlords occupy large amounts of land, they can only rent it to common people at low prices.

During the holidays, we have to visit each other and win over each other.

There are very few instances of bullies oppressing people.

There are only a few people, and you still bully them. Do you really think they won’t run away?

Wherever the train goes, there is fairness.

I climbed on the train in the middle of the night, wandered off and ran away.

Of course, many landowners in the north now begin to purchase castrated Kunlun slaves and use them to farm the land.

However, the royal family strictly prohibited this.

Slaves still can't work.

Migrating people is indeed a good strategy.

Every year, many issues related to land rebellions are solved.

During the Xishan Rebellion 20 years ago, people gathered.

The imperial court sent people to provide compensation, and only used 2000 people, carrying 20 shi of food and 30 silver, and relocated 8 people. The rebellion immediately subsided.

As soon as he shouted in front of the formation, the morale of the other party's soldiers was in chaos.

Some people even clamored that the emperor had tricked him into killing him.

However, there are a large number of telegrams as evidence, many of which are code words and customary words among family members that only family members can speak. This is ironclad evidence.

So it's impossible to trick him into killing him.

By the way, there are also photos and newspapers as evidence.

Now it seems that taking photos and newspapers can be a little more relaxing.

However, the emperor did not allow large-scale migration across the sea.

Although many people secretly go to sea.

The great cross-ocean migration is too difficult to control.

(End of this chapter)